that it is ever enamored of the kind of knowledge which
reveals to them something of that essence which is eternal, and is not
wandering between the two poles of generation and decay.Lit. “is not made to wander by generation and
decay.” Cf. Crat. 411 C, Phaedo
95 E, whence Aristotle took his title. See Class. Phil. xvii. (1922) pp. 334-352.”
“Let us take that as agreed.” “And,
further,” said I, “that their desire is for the whole of
it and that they do not willingly renounce a small or a great, a more
precious or a less honored, part of it. That was the point of our former
illustrationSupra 474 C-D. drawn
from lovers and men covetous of honor.” “You are
right,” he said. “Consider, then, next whether the men
who are to meet our requirements